Future of regional airports
Transcript of Future of regional airports
The future of regional airports– Challenges and opportunities
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The main assumptions of the opinion:
Highlighting the importance of regional airports for the territorial cohesion of the EU andthe socio-economic development of regions.
Airports vs. challenges in the context of the Green Deal, safety and security as well as new technologies.
Providing financial support to regional airports in the EU financial perspective for 2021-27, as well as ensuring support from other sources.
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The state of regional airports
ACI Europe's analysis shows that in the medium-term scenario, airports will lose a further EUR 25 billion in revenues in 2021 compared to 2019.
Smaller regional airports have recorded the highest declines in direct connectivity: -96 % in Linz (Austria),-95 % in Treviso (Italy), -93 % in Groningen Eelde (the Netherlands), -91 % in Vaasa (Finland),-87 % in Quimper (France), -83 % in Shannon (Ireland) and -82 % in Burgas (Bulgaria).
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Airlines, airports and air navigation service providers in 2020
56.2 billion losses
1.7 billion fewerpassengers
6.1 billion fewerflights
191 000 direct redundancies
2x all-cargo market segmentdoubled from 3 % to 6 %
193 risk of insolvencyin the coming months
277 000 12.4jobs billion of GDP
billion losescompared to 201930 > 60%
of their annual revenue
~ 55%compared to 2019
Possible recovery scenarios 3
The importance of regional airports
25.9% 991 billionto the economy
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Regional airports play a prominent role in the territorial cohesion of the EU, especially for sparsely populated, peripheraland outermost regions.Territorial cohesion is an objective of the Union recognised by the Lisbon Treaty as the third dimension of the objective of cohesion, alongside with economic and social cohesion.
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Record number of 772 K passengers served in 2019.Over last decade air traffic volume has steadily increased.
European Green Deal- vision for the decarbonisation of the aviation/transport sector- aviation and regional airports must contribute to the EU's decarbonisation objectives, including by using alternative fuels and improving intermodality (particularly air-rail connections)
White Paper- reduce dependence on oil imports, improve efficiency and decarbonise transport- importance of intermodality and co-modality through the efficient use of different modes of transport, on their own and in combination with other modes, which in turn leads to an optimal
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Source: ACI Think Paper #7 - October 2020
Road transport71.7%
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Railways Other transportationSHARE OFTRANSPORT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Source: EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (EEA)
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Regional airports of the future 7
safe + digital + supporting intermodalitygreen +
The place of aviation in the new EU financial perspective for 2021-2027It is necessary to provide EU funds, in the context of cohesion policy for 2021-27:
It is also important, as part of the legislative process, for the European Commission to develop even more flexible and more effective public aid rules that enable Member States to provide regional airports the financial assistance they need.
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to co-finance investments in regional airports that directly support processes relating to decarbonisation and the low-carbon circular economy modelfor the development of safety and security infrastructure, and to make use of innovative technologies as well as digitalisation supporting airports in their contribution to the objectives of the European Green Dealto support the introduction and application of results of R&D work related in particular to the reduction of emissions and noise levels of aircraft engines
Sources of funding:Recovery Plan for Europe (Next Generation EU) National Operational ProgrammsRegional Operational Programms
Previous opinions of the European Committee of the Regions on aviation 9
COTER-027
2004
Opinion on low-cost airlines and territorial development
COTER-035
2005
Draft Community guidelines on financing of airports and start-up aid to airlines departing from regional airports
COTER-IV/008
2007
The future of European airports
COTER-IV/021
2009
Single European Sky II
COTER-V/026
2012
Airport package
COTER-V-043
2013
EU Guidelines on State Aid to Airports and Airlines
COTER-VI/011
2016
Aviation Strategy
Policy analysis (provided by the Secretariat) February 2021
Meetings with stakeholders Between January and March 2021
Submission of your working document Between 1-3 February 2021 depending on the size of the document
Exchange of views in COTER 26 February 2021
Submission of your draft opinion Between 19-25 March 2021 depending on the size of the document
Deadline for amendments:
- for members- for rapporteur
- 12 April (3pm)- 19 April (12pm)
First discussion and adoption in COTER 23 April 2021
Deadline for amendments:
-for members- for rapporteur
- 15 June (3pm)- 24 June (12pm)
Adoption in plenary 30 June/2nd July 2021
Timetable for the development of the opinion 10
Stakeholder consultations 111
Partner Date and time
DG COMP 12 February
PT PRES 16 February
Clean Sky 2 22 February
Airport Region Council 25 February
MEPs – R. Zile, K. Zlotowski 2 March
DG MOVE 9 March
Airport Council International (ACI) 17 March
Association of Regional Airports in Poland 22 March
DG REGIO 22 March,
MEP – M. Marinescu (Chairman of European Parliament's Intergroup on Sky and Space) 29 April
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What do we expect from the coherent actions of the
four stakeholders?
European Commission
Member states
Airport shareholders
Management Boardof a regional airport
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